Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-08-04
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CASTER. WIS.,. POST OFFICE
T1oun and COUNTY News.


l.. Fisher, of Fennimore, has been
granted patent foran improved sled.
The Platteyille district camp meeting,
to be held at Bethel Grove near Belmont,
will commence Wednesday August 10.
Henry Muesse has the contract for
building the new school house in the
Fry District.
Prof. G.. T. Foster and wife drove up
from Potosi and spent Thursday and
Friday here.
Mr.. E. B. Cornish, of Bloomington, an
old soldier, is paying Lancaster visit.
He has not been here since the soldiers
reunion.
Louis Wibbert, son of Rev. Father
Wibbert, of Platteville, accompanied
Dist Atty Murphy to Lancaster last
Wednesday.
Rev. B. Z. Wheeler, of Platteville,
presiding elder of this district, went to
Patch Grove Friday to conduct quarter
ly meeting there.
j. e. Oates has been appointed by
Judge Clementson as clerk of the circuit
court for La Fayette county, in place of
his deceased brother.
Miss Louise Club went to Madison
last Saturday to visit her friend Miss
Minnie Fritz She will also attend the
Assembly at Monona Lake.
We are indebted to Mr.. A. r. Nc
CARNEY, who is doing real estate and
loan business at Garden City, Kan,
for some fine views of that city
A party consisting of Ralph Barnett.
Charlie Wright, Harry Richards, George
Altizer, Allan Kidd and Alex. Ivey
camped out at Rowden's this week.
Mr.. John A. Mcpherson, who has
been visiting his brothers at Ellenboro
was in Lancaster Thursday on his re-
turn to his home at Hawkeye, Kansas,
and made us pleasant call
Ed. Hite, who resided in Lancaster
when boy, fell from windmill tower
in Bloomington short time ago and was
severely injured, but the Record says he
has recovered sufficiently to be around
on crutches.
The Muscoda News says that Miss
Delilah Hulburt, who is working in the
family of Clark Brown, near Blue River,
fell from horse she was riding last
evening, and broke the upper bone of
her right arm DIR. Jameson was called
and reduced the fracture, and the young
lady is doing we'll
In the early part of the summer 8
remarkably large number of young
pheasants were noticed in the timber
about Lancaster. but they have sudden
" vanished, and those who had contem-
plated having fine sport shooting when
the law is out are casting about for a
reason for their sudden departure.
,Jhhn Wright has been furnished by the
Ziegler Bros. with fine double-barrel
breach-loading shot gun, and that may
account for the sudden departure of
the birds.
The Bloomington Record gives the
particulars of the drowning of johnson,
mentioned in last weeks HERALD, as
follows: Charley f. johnson, a painter
who was raised in this village, commit
ted suicide by drowning in the Missis-
sippi at Clayton, Iowa, last Friday. He
had been rowing down the river with
his wife and when out in the stream he
told her he was going to drown himself.
She replied. "For Gods sake, Charlie,
don'tr' and taking up an extra pair Of
oars that were lying in the boat, she
nulled it to shore. He then walked out
into the river and drowned almost with
ont struggle, in her presence. he
was about 25 years old and leaves =
widow. but no children. The body was
recovered.